The recruiting window ended on Friday, and they were all back on campus after nearly two weeks of crisscrossing the country.

The second-ranked Ducks (12-0) meet top-ranked Auburn (13-0) in the BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 10 in Glendale, Ariz.

But recruiting is the lifeblood of the program's future.

"Some of the guys are traveling all the way to Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Iowa, all the way back across Southern California, Arizona," UO secondary coach John Neal said. "Flipping that switch from coaching, getting ready for this magnitude of a game, to going and being in someone's home and trying to make a presentation, is really tough."

UO coach Chip Kelly is the closer, so the pressure was squarely on him during the days following Oregon's 37-20 victory over Oregon State in the Civil War.

"He had not just football and some of the awards banquets, but I don't know how many homes he was in during the last couple weeks," Neal said. "He did a great job -- really put some time in. He did more than all of us."

He wrote about Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott's master
plan, which in the future includes the Rose Bowl. Scott isn't wild about this season's TCU-Wisconsin matchup in the Granddaddy.

And, of particular interest to people who have spent thousands for UO season tickets, Scott says that should the Ducks play host to the Pac-12 title game next
season, some season-ticket holders probably will be evicted from their
seats in Autzen Stadium to make room for sponsors and high rollers from elsewhere in the conference.